the jonestown report, Volume 27, November 2025

  1. Website news
    1. Military Response to Jonestown Site Relaunched, by Aliah Mohmand & Shannon Howard
    2. Website Adds Page on Social Media Resources, by Joel Roston
      1. Peoples Temple Forums and Accounts
    3. The Volunteers of the Website
      1. Brittni Criglow’s Journey from Addiction Leads to Research into Jonestown Pharmacy, by Rebecca Moore
  2. Special Reports & Research
    1. The November 18 Project: A Table of Contents
      1. The November 18 Project: An Introduction, by Shannon Howard
      2. Transcribing Q042, The Death Tape, by Shannon Howard
      3. Q042 Transcript of November 18 Project
        1. Q042 Transcription Variants
      4. Death Tape Release and Chain of Evidence Timeline
      5. The NBC Footage
        1. Introduction and Synopsis, by Adrian Whicker
        2. NBC Footage Guide, by Adrian Whicker, Shannon Howard, Joel X. Thomas, and Brian Holtz
        3. Tracking Down NBC’s Missing Footage, by Aliah Mohmand
        4. Transcript of House Committee NBC Tape Notes, by Aliah Mohmand
      6. Who Was Who on November 18?
    2. Artificial Intelligence Depictions of Jonestown: The Story Continues, by Rebecca Moore
      1. AI Offers Friendship to Jonestown Researcher, by Danielle Redifer
      2. AI Creates New Jonestown Fictions, by Casey Strain
      3. Book Reviewed with AI Assistance, by Joseph Szimhart
    3. Target: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple: An Overview, by Connor Ashley Clayton
    4. The Conspiracy Book
  3. The People of Peoples Temple
    1. Escaping Jonestown: The Life of Thom Bogue, by Donna M.Z. Hoover
    2. Ruth Coleman: The Voice I Had to Find, by Karen Middleton
    3. Marceline Jones: The Mother of All, by Sarah Rex
    4. The Life and Death of Maria Katsaris, by the Reich Family
    5. Remembering Steven Katsaris, by the Reich Family
    6. The Vindication of Larry Layton, by Georges Catoux
    7. The Touchettes in Indianapolis: A Life Before the Temple, by Danielle Redifer
    8. Dick Tropp: The Frog in the Pot?, by Rich Weiner
      1. The Collected Writings of Dick Tropp
    9. Erma Miriam Winfrey: Memories of a Sweet and Beautiful Soul
  4. Peoples Temple in the News
    1. Tours Launched to Visit Jonestown Site
      1. Articles on Guyana proposal for Jonestown tours, 2024
      2. Guyanese Perspectives on Jonestown as Dark Tourism Site
      3. Why Jonestown should not be turned into a “tourist attraction”, by Marc Shuman
      4. Visiting Jonestown, Peoples Temple, by Chris Weber
  5. News from the Archives
    1. CHS Peoples Temple Collection Transferred to Stanford, by Frances Kaplan
    2. Researchers Examine 46-Year-Old Congressional Probe into Jonestown, by Aliah Mohmand
    3. The Race to Preserve the History of Peoples Temple, by Aliah Mohmand
  6. Articles, the jonestown report 2025
    1. “If We Can’t Live in Peace, Then Let’s Die in Peace!”, by Marthe Elin Axland Grindheim
    2. “You Don’t Tell God He’s Got a Drug Problem”: Addiction’s Role in Peoples Temple, by Brittni Criglow
    3. The Definitive Guide to Cyanide in Jonestown, by Brittni Criglow
    4. From Resistance to Terror: The Open Secret of Jonestown, by Rebecca Moore
    5. “If you don’t love children, you don’t understand socialism”: The Children of Peoples Temple, by Alexandra Leah Prince
    6. Project Allows Students to Contribute to History, by Alexandra Leah Prince
      1. The Students of Alexandra Leah Prince
    7. Chronicling the History of the Pioneers in Jonestown, by Danielle Redifer
    8. Leo Ryan’s Heroism at Jonestown, by Mark Stricherz
    9. The Foreign Language Section
      1. Massenpsychologie in der Praxis?, by Ferdinand Helmig (German)
      2. La canción de los suicidas: una nota del autor, by Salvador Hernáez Alonso (Spanish)
      3. Three Spanish translations by Jose Arturo Martinez Quintanilla
        1. Las Cartas de Despedida de Teri Buford
        2. Teri Buford abandona Peoples Temple
        3. Carta de Pat Grunnet a su Madre, Mayo 1978
  7. Commentary and Opinion
    1. The Process of Destruction: Reflecting on 2020, by Nicole Bissett
    2. Jim Jones still has most of us fooled; Jonestown Massacre was murder, by Josh Edwards
    3. Jim Jones & Donald J. Trump: What Do They Share?, by Annie Dawid
    4. Facing Jim Jones & Jonestown: In Defense of My Hope for Universal Reconciliation, by Father Jeff Hood
  8. Jonestown in the Arts 2025
    1. Books
      1. Fleming Book Presents Jonestown to Young Adults, by Cole Waterman
      2. The Song of the Suicides: An Author’s Note, by Salvador Hernáez Alonso
      3. The Journey of Writing about the People, by Sarah Rex
      4. Fathom These Events: Stories of Peoples Temple and Jonestown, by Annie Dawid
    2. Film
      1. HBO to Present Limited Series on Peoples Temple
      2. History Finally Written by the Real Victors, by Mariam Kanso & Sarah Springer
      3. The Dissenter: The Resurrection of a Vision, by Alex Smith
    3. Musical Notes
      1. Second Sisters Album Presents Gentle Apocalypse, by Joel Roston
      2. The Noise of the Death Tape, an interview with Death Potion by Joel Roston
      3. Jim Jones Etudes, by Evan Williams
    4. The eighth annual Peoples Temple podcast review spectacular!, by Jason Dikes
  9. Obituaries 2025
    1. Guy Young: A Paragon of Adaptation, by Bonnie Yates
    2. JoeSam. Spelled his Name with a Period, by Rebecca Moore
  10. the jonestown report Archive
Originally posted on October 22nd, 2025.
Last modified on November 1st, 2025.